Miller-Uibo becomes first female athlete this year and in Bahamian history to run sub-11 and sub-22 in the same meet; Lyles (19.94) edges Gardiner (19.96) for top time, competing in different sections at Clermont National Training Center

By Erik Boal, DyeStat Editor

One night after becoming only the fourth female athlete in history to run under 11 seconds in the 100-meter dash, along with sub-22 in the 200 and sub-49 in the 400, Bahamian standout Shaunae Miller-Uibo achieved a pair of firsts Saturday as part of the Back to the Track Series in Clermont, Fla.

Miller-Uibo, representing adidas and Pure Athletics, clocked a world-leading 21.98 seconds in the 200 to become the first female athlete this year, along with the first in her country’s history, to run sub-11 and sub-22 in the same meet.

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Miller-Uibo ran the fastest wind-legal 100 time in the world this year with a personal-best 10.98 effort Friday – and third on the all-conditions list behind Jamaican Elaine Thompson, who ran a wind-aided 10.73 (+3.0 mps) on Saturday at Ashenheim Stadium in Kingston, along with American Sha’Carri Richardson, as the Nike professional clocked a wind-aided 10.79 (+2.7 mps) at the AP Ranch High Performance meet Thursday in Dallas, Texas – and lowered her own fastest performance in the 200 from 22.61 at the Showdown in O-Town on July 4 at Montverde Academy.

Nike professional Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who set a national record Friday for Puerto Rico with her wind-legal 11.22 in the 100, took second in the 200 in 22.45 and American Lynna Irby, representing adidas, placed third in 22.47.

Camacho-Quinn ran the second-fastest time ever by a Puerto Rican female athlete, but her performance is a low-altitude national record, since the 22.23 produced by former USC standout Carol Rodriguez in 2006 was run at 4,550 feet elevation in Provo, Utah.

Miller-Uibo now boasts the fastest wind-legal marks in the world this year in the 100, 200 and 400, with her 50.52 also at the Showdown in O-Town.

Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith was the only female athlete globally to run sub-11 and sub-22 in the same meet each of the past two years after nobody achieved the feat in 2017. Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson and Dutch talent Dafne Schippers both accomplished the double at the 2016 Olympics.

Noah Lyles ran a wind-legal 19.94 in his section of the 200 to take over the world lead this year, but only after Bahamian star and fellow adidas professional Stevie Gardiner clocked a wind-legal 19.96 in his section.

American Kenny Bednarek, a Nike professional who achieved the previous world lead by running 20.06 at the Showdown in O-Town, was third in 20.19.

Nigerian star Divine Oduduru, representing Puma, clocked 20.22, with American Josephus Lyles and Canadian Andre De Grasse both running 20.24 in separate sections.

Grant Holloway, an adidas professional and reigning World gold medalist in the 110-meter hurdles, ran a wind-legal 13.47 in the final. Holloway clocked 13.35 to edge fellow American Devon Allen, representing Nike, in the prelims for the third- and fourth-fastest times in the world this year, but Allen didn’t race in the final.

Maicel Uibo, an adidas professional representing Estonia and the reigning World decathlon silver medalist, was second in the final in 14.68.

Jamaican Brittany Anderson, the World U-20 record holder in the 100-meter hurdles, prevailed in a wind-legal 12.82. Anderson, representing Puma, ran a wind-aided 12.71 in the prelims, with British professional and adidas athlete Tiffany Porter clocking 12.74.

Porter was second in the final in 12.92, with sister Cindy Ofili finishing third in 12.95.

TJ Holmes, an American 400-meter hurdler and Nike professional, clocked 1:17.15 in a solo effort in the 600 meters.